• 1. Bee yee therefore followers of God, as deare children,
  • 2. And walke in loue, euen as Christ hath loued vs, and hath giuen himselfe for vs, to be an offering and a sacrifice of a sweete smelling sauour to God.
  • 3. But fornication, and all vncleannesse, or couetousnesse, let it not be once named among you, as it becommeth Saintes,
  • 4. Neither filthinesse, neither foolish talking, neither iesting, which are things not comely, but rather giuing of thankes.
  • 5. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, neither vncleane person, nor couetous person, which is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdome of Christ, and of God.
  • 6. Let no man deceiue you with vaine wordes: for, for such thinges commeth the wrath of God vpon the children of disobedience.
  • 7. Be not therefore companions with them.
  • 8. For ye were once darkenesse, but are nowe light in the Lord: walke as children of light,
  • 9. (For the fruit of the Spirit is in al goodnes, and righteousnes, and trueth)
  • 10. Approuing that which is pleasing to the Lorde.
  • 11. And haue no fellowship with ye vnfruitfull works of darknes, but euen reproue them rather.
  • 12. For it is shame euen to speake of the things which are done of them in secret.
  • 13. But all thinges when they are reproued of the light, are manifest: for it is light that maketh all things manifest.
  • 14. Wherefore hee sayeth, Awake thou that sleepest, and stande vp from the deade, and Christ shall giue thee light.
  • 15. Take heede therefore that yee walke circumspectly, not as fooles, but as wise,
  • 16. Redeeming ye season: for ye daies are euill.
  • 17. Wherefore, be ye not vnwise, but vnderstand what the will of the Lord is.
  • 18. And be not drunke with wine, wherein is excesse: but be fulfilled with the Spirit,
  • 19. Speaking vnto your selues in psalmes, and hymnes, and spirituall songs, singing, and making melodie to the Lord in your hearts,
  • 20. Giuing thankes alwaies for all thinges vnto God euen the Father, in the Name of our Lorde Iesus Christ,
  • 21. Submitting your selues one to another in the feare of God.
  • 22. Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as vnto the Lord.
  • 23. For the husband is the wiues head, euen as Christ is the head of the Church, and the same is the sauiour of his body.
  • 24. Therfore as the Church is in subiection to Christ, euen so let the wiues be to their husbads in euery thing.
  • 25. Husbands, loue your wiues, euen as Christ loued the Church, & gaue himselfe for it,
  • 26. That hee might sanctifie it, and clense it by the washing of water through the worde,
  • 27. That hee might make it vnto him selfe a glorious Church, not hauing spot or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it shoulde bee holy and without blame.
  • 28. So ought men to loue their wiues, as their owne bodies: he that loueth his wife, loueth him selfe.
  • 29. For no man euer yet hated his owne flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, euen as the Lord doeth the Church.
  • 30. For we are members of his bodie, of his flesh, and of his bones.
  • 31. For this cause shal a man leaue father and mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they twaine shalbe one flesh.
  • 32. This is a great secrete, but I speake concerning Christ, and concerning the Church.
  • 33. Therefore euery one of you, doe ye so: let euery one loue his wife, euen as himselfe, and let the wife see that shee feare her husband.